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  4. Posted

    "Everything" Ritz Crackers, topped with Bleu Cheese. Or Blue Cheese. Either way, om nom nom. I love bl(eu/ue) cheese in almost any form, save Gorgonzola (too sweet). My preferred varieties are, in order:

    1. Stilton
    2. Roquefort
    3. Bleu d'Auvergne
    4. Maytag Blue (a distant 4th)
    5. (Insert other blues that aren't Gorgonzola here)

    This said, it's become hard to get a really, really good hunk of Stilton around here. They all seem to come tinged with ammonia, a sign of being "past their prime" as far as I know. Roquefort, when you can ever find the stuff (if ever - I don't know if the Roquefort tax/ban is still in effect or not) is usually easier to get in good shape, but a lot more expensive pound for pound.

    That said, it's been a while since I've really gone cheese hunting. I used to do it all the time when I could get out and drive for myself, but alas, my prescription use of Dilaudid on a daily basis has made me a walking DUI (are you kidding? 40mg of the stuff a day??? I'd light up the drug tests like a neon lamp), and has sorely curtailed my cheese spelunking efforts. Mrs. Prof dislikes expensive cheese, primarily for the use of the word "expensive" in that last clause. Nowadays, I can only get what our usual stores (Walmart, Albertson's, Costco) carry in their limited cheese sections. Sigh.

    So, the next time you're having a piece of Bleu d'Auvergne, take a bite for me, will you? I would appreciate the thought.

  5. Posted

    Watching The Daily Show, a rerun from the last day of the RNC. Pretty biting stuff. In reality, I'm only watching it as a test of a Paramount+ install on my new Fire Stick 4K. I've migrated Paramount+, peacock, Disney+, Prime Video, FloMarching, and last but hardly least, YouTubeTV, to the Fire Stick 4K. It's running sweetly on a v6 WiFi connection, better I might say than the base Samsung TV ran with a wired 10/100 connection (the max wired speed it supported).

    I've also installed pluto tv, and quickly found the Sailor Moon channel, to the chagrin of the rest of the household. I am chaos personified. :ph34r:

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  8. Posted

    I was released from the hospital Saturday afternoon. The bone biopsy went long enough without growing anything to keep the Infectious Diseases doctor happy, so he and the hospitalist put their heads together and decided to discharge me around 4:30 PM. I've got to take a couple of antibiotics (Augmentin, Doxycycline) twice a day as a "just in case" measure for the next ten days, and I need to make a couple of follow-up appointments with my podiatrist and my primary care doctor during the week, but other than that I'm done with the hospital for now.

  11. Posted

    My surgery seems to have gone well, at first glance. There was a little bit of confusion pre-op, since the anesthesiologist didn't have the whole procedure on her charts - she only had the bone biopsy part. My doctor added the tendon stretching part to her paperwork, and all was well. They didn't make me move out of my bed, even. They did it right there, with minimal fuss and muss. Total time from start to wake-up was about 1 hour 40 minutes.

    Post-op pain is more-or-less under control, thanks to Dilaudid doses. They gave me 4mg in recovery, and I just got another 1mg 6 hours later. There was a brief mixup where my podiatrist tried to put me on a diabetic diet (I'M NOT DIABETIC, DAMN IT), but I spoke to the hospitalist and we fixed that right away. Phew. All I'm waiting for now are the biopsy results. I probably won't get those until Monday. Augh.

  13. Posted

    The hives went away after a couple of days. Phew.

    Now I'm going into the hospital for the rest of the week, for a completely different reason.

    I've had a bleeding ulcer on the bottom of my right foot for about a year now. The podiatrist thinks it might be related to the geometry of my big toe bones. They don't line up straight. So, I get to have an MRI done (under anesthesia, due to my torn rotator cuff) to first look for hidden infection. If he finds any, he'll go in and get it. If none, he'll go in and fix the geometry of my bones.

    Let's hope there are no complications this time.

  15. Posted

    A new old comic has been posted to the GoComics collection. It's called Eyebeam, and it's straight out of my college days (and post-college, since it went on for a good deal afterward). The entire run is online from start to finish. I highly recommend it for its avant-garde art style, stream of consciousness wit, and memorable characters. Remember to vote for Hank.

    The run takes a little patience to get into, but I guarantee it's worth it, especially if you keep in mind that this comes from the same college campus era (and area) that spawned Michael Dell.

    https://www.gocomics.com/eyebeam/1978/10/05

  16. Posted

    The NVMe saga has apparently come to a happy conclusion. The screws arrived today, and they were indeed different from the ones I got from Amazon. My son installed the 4TB NVMe drive using them, and we then took a few moments to do a slight bit of case dusting before reassembling the laptop. A few hushed prayers and crossed fingers later, we booted up the system, ran Disk Management to set up the drive, and voila! The drive worked.

    For anyone interested, it is indeed running at PCI-E 3.0 speeds, according to the Crystal Disk Info/Benchmark suite. It reads a tad slower than my Samsung C: drive, but writes just a bit faster. Crystal reports it's built to the NVMe 2.0 standard, whereas the Samsung 970 EVO is merely NVMe 1.3 compliant. Go figure. It's also running cooler than the Samsung, probably due to the graphene heatsink ribbon on top of it.

    Regardless of the differences, at the moment, I'm happy.

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  18. Posted

    I have hives.

    At least, I hope that's what they are. I've got clusters of itchy, red, raised welts all over my groin, my armpits, and down my sides. The last time I had a skin rash this wide-ranging, it turned into Henoch-Schönlein purpura. It hospitalized me, formed terrible, crusty blisters, and took months to clear up.

    If you want to see just how scared I am of this crap turning into another HSP attack, go visit this gallery page of my web site (WARNING - NSFW - NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!) and look at what happened to me in just a couple of days' time back in December of 2020. You'd be scared shitless, too.

  19. Posted

    While I was waiting for Mrs. Prof to scan the score pages, I listened to a recording of the 1st Movement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2. The movement clocks in at around 21 minutes in length. I've arranged around 8 of those minutes so far, so of particular interest to me were the remaining 13 minutes of the movement. Bruckner takes you on a journey and a half to get to the end, but Good Lord, is the payoff worth it!!! That last minute is so worth the trip it took to get there. It's incredibly powerful.

    So, I now have pages 23 through 40 scanned and in my posession (don't ask me for a page total count, Mrs. Prof has the score and I'm not getting it back from her), which means I'm ready to work on the intervening minutes. Lots and lots of exposition. Oh, well. I've got the last minute to keep me going. And then there's Movements 2, 3, and 4... :danshiftyeyes:

    BTW, if you want to play along as I document this journey, here's a link to the recording I'm using as a reference. I bought a copy from Amazon. I suggest you do the same if you like it enough.

     

     

  20. Posted

    I'm awake again. Waiting for Mrs. Prof to scan more pages from the study score so I can continue arranging. You see, the study score I bought is too small for me to work with, so she scans pages from it to PDF format, which I can zoom in on. Since her first batch, she normally does this while I'm working on previously scanned pages. It just so happens that I outpaced her while she was asleep this time.

  22. Posted

    I finally hit a brick wall at around 6am and had to stop work on the Bruckner. My son and I did the math and figured that I'd done around 16 hours of arranging work from yesterday into today (I've been on a night shift schedule lately). Time to dump core and pull the Big Red Switch for the day.

  23. Posted

    I have spent in excess of 12 hours today working on my concert band / wind ensemble arrangement of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C Minor. I did take a brief involuntary nap for about 2 hours in the late afternoon, but that's all. Don't ask me what's kept me going - perhaps it's guilt from having gone almost five days without working on it. Whatever the case, I've made tremendous progress to make up for the neglect.

    I even managed to get my son to listen to it, and he practically never listens to my works in progress. His critique: "I want to hear more, and that's a good thing." Huzzah - sweet vindication.

  24. Posted

    Update: Sager sent me the screws. They're on their way and due to arrive on Thursday. My Amazon screws are already here, but pedant that my son is for OEM equipment, he refuses to use them until we've tried the Sager screws first. Bah. Humbug.

  25. Posted

    My first hard drive was almost a 44MB MFM hard drive. Problem was, I'd specifically ordered a 40MB IDE drive (IDE drives were still new) to go with my 80286-12 system. I made the builder take the system back, pull the drive/controller, and put in what I'd ordered. I did finally get my spiffy Seagate 40MB IDE drive, complete with paddle card controller, which I was glad to have, even if it meant having 4 fewer megabytes. I was happy with the increased reliability.